Fadlullah Wilmot || 17 April 2026

False flag operations and false attribution are not conspiracy theories. They are an indispensable part of the U.S. and Israel’s history of statecraft through staged terror or alleged terror. The U.S. ignited the Spanish-American War with explosions in the USS Maine used as a pretence to attack Spain going on to seize Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The US escalated the Vietnam war by fabricating a Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin as a casus beli. False flags and false attribution have been a key component in Israel’s statecraft from its founding with bombings in Cairo and Baghdad and the attack on the USS Liberty all blamed on others. They do this to manipulate perception, justify aggression and manufacture consent for an attack framed as a retaliation. Blame the enemy. Reshape reality.

Today Israel and the U.S. are continuing their illegal strikes on Iran while suddenly multiple attacks hit Jewish targets in Europe. Out of the blue, an unknown group calling itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya emerges and claims responsibility. Western leaders and media without evidence, blame Tehran. Netanyahu’s nuclear hysteria has for 34 years provided the soundtrack.

Netanyahu’s Nuclear False Flag

Benjamin Netanyahu has weaponized fear since 1992, when in a Knesset speech, he claimed that Iran could, within five years, have a nuclear bomb. But twenty years later waving a cartoon bomb at the UN said Iran would finish medium enrichment by next spring or summer and then would be weeks or months away from an atomic bomb. Sixteen deadlines passed but each time he reset the clock in spite of U.S. intelligence and even Mossad rebutting his claims. Yet he persisted with no pushback from the West in the mantra that Iran is ‘two weeks away’ from having a bomb.

The US and Netanyahu ignored Iran’s Supreme Leader’s fatwa that banned nuclear weapons. Even though Iran and Western intelligence sources confirmed this and the IAEA verified Iran’s full JCPOA compliance15 times from 2015 to May 2018, the Israeli narrative denied this and even assassinated Iranian negotiators to torpedo peace talks.

Israel’s History of Deception

Pre-state Zionists began Isael’s history of false flag operations with Menachem Begin’s Irgun terrorist bombing of King David Hotel in 1946 dressed as Arab insurgents killing 91. In 1954 Israeli intelligence recruited Egyptian Jews posing as Muslims to bomb Western targets, cinemas, libraries, and U.S. sites with the aim of framing Egyptian nationalists and the Muslim Brotherhood as anti-Jewish. The dual goals were clear – one to scare Jews into emigrating to Israel and the other to sabotaging any ties with the West.

Bombs exploded in Baghdad in1950 and 1951 hitting cafés, markets and the Masuda Shemtov synagogue. The ensuing panic achieved its aim of driving 120,000 fully integrated Iraqi Jews to Israel. Avi Shlaim was able to confirm that Zionist agents posing as Muslims had set off the multiple blasts.  In the Qibya Massacre of 1953, the IDF killed 69 villagers blaming “infiltrators.”

On June 8,1967 Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty killing 34 and wounding 171 Americans wanting to blame it on Egypt. Although Israel claimed it was a mistake, declassified NSA intercepts and survivor accounts confirm Israeli pilots identified the Liberty as American (“It’s an American ship”) multiple times during the attack. Ground control acknowledged it but ordered them to proceed anyway (“Continue the attack”). One pilot even argued, citing the U.S. flag. Helicopters later confirmed the American ID post-strike. Israel even deliberately strafed survivors and the machine-gunned life rafts a clear war crime just like the US did in its recent attacks on Venezuelan fishermen.

October 7 Propaganda Machine

October 7, 2023, exposed Israel’s propaganda in overdrive. Officials claimed 40 beheaded babies, babies baked in ovens, and systematic rapes. These tales were used to justify Gaza’s genocidal destruction. There was no forensic evidence of decapitated infants and rape stories relied on unverified soldier gossip.  Israel blamed every death on Hamas, but leaked IDF data, survivor testimonies and independent analyses estimate that at least one third of the deaths came from friendly fire and the Hanibal Directive. Another third of the deaths were legitimate targets — Israeli army, police, or militia.

Modern Patterns Emerge

The false attribution pattern continues in Australia. In April 2024, after the Bondi Junction stabbing, there were immediate allegations of Islamist or pro-Palestine terror, but it was Joel Cauchi, a man with severe mental illness. In December 2024, firebombs hit the Adass Israel Synagogue, and politicians rushed to blame Iran before the smoke had even cleared. Investigations later pointed to local criminals, not a foreign state. Then came the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre in December 2025, where politicians, Israeli officials and the media quickly blamed Iran and Hezbollah, even as the attackers were later described as ISIS-inspired with no Tehran link.

There have been other synagogue arsons in Melbourne, Sydney and London where Iran was blamed.  Probes told another story with domestic thugs involved but based on previous Israeli behaviour the question of a possible false flag attack won’t go away.

A previously unknown organisation called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya (HAYI), abruptly appears on the scene in March 2026 claiming attacks on Jewish targets across Europe including ambulances in Golders Green. Immediately anomalies piled up as there is no internet history predating the claims and suspiciously their websites were launched just days before the attacks. Their statements made in Arabic have basic linguistic howlers. Their claims were spread through outsider channels as there appears to be no organic network supporting them. Arrests of local British Muslims Rehan Khan (19), Hamza Iqbal (20), and a 17-year-old on arson charges revealed no Iran links. This false attribution is the same political and media reflex that turns uncertainty into accusation and accusation into policy.

Lies Drive Endless Conflict

False flags and false attribution have been used to ignite wars on lies, impose sanctions, assassinate leaders, health workers, journalists, educators and aid workers by blaming others, conquering through perception and HAYI fits the pattern perfectly. Let’s stop swallowing stories and demand evidence or the suffering of innocent people will continue. Now we have the demonisation of Iran by false attribution of HAYI. They ignite wars on lies, conquer through perception.

Stop swallowing stories, demand evidence, or innocent blood flows forever.

Haji Fadlullah Wilmot is a member of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Renaissance Front. He formerly served at universities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia but after the tsunami in Aceh became involved in the humanitarian and development sector. He has worked in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Solomon Islands, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a volunteer with the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network he is now monitoring anti Muslim hate speech in the electronic as well as social media that is exploding in response to right wing posts about what is happening in Gaza and also works with organisations supporting Muslim converts.